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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave median real estate price is $974,864, which is more expensive than 67.4% of the neighborhoods in New York and 86.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave is currently $2,835, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 55.0% of New York neighborhoods.

Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Brooklyn, New York.

Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) small apartment buildings and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 9.4% in Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 40.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Brooklyn, the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.5% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Corner bodegas, stores on the first floor and apartments above, former grand Victorian residences converted into apartments, three-deckers built shoulder-to-shoulder, duplexes. Such building types define the real estate of neighborhoods dominated by small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings. Many are in older core neighborhoods of Eastern and Midwestern cities, or historic town centers in their hinterlands. If you wax romantic about the look and feel of such neighborhoods, with fresh pizza, falafel and an independent florist at the corner, then you might find the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood worth a close look. This neighborhood is an absolutely outstanding example of the dominance of small 2, 3, and 4 unit apartment buildings compared to neighborhoods across the nation, as they make up a substantial portion of this neighborhood's real estate stock. In fact, no less than 53.2% of the real estate here is made up of such dwellings, which is higher than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

In the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood, 31.0% of people ride the train to work each day. This is a very high percentage compared to most places. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this is a higher level of train ridership than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Also, more people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood buck this trend. 39.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood has more West Indian and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have West Indian ancestry and 8.2% have Jamaican ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood in Brooklyn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood, 35.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.8%), and 15.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (8.2%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (6.3%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (6.1%), among others. In addition, 32.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Linden Blvd / Pennsylvania Ave neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (33.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (31.0%) and 11.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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